Dear Parents, March 18, 2014
We are starting theme 8 in our reading series – Our Earth. Our reading strategy this week is “summarizing”. The comprehension skill that will help with summarizing is categorizing or classifying. Paying attention to what is the same or different in the stories we read can help us better understand the stories. Our grammar focus this week is action words (verbs) and our phonics focus this week is the action word endings, -s, -ed, and -ing. Our spelling words this week are from unit 33 and have the ending –ed. The words are posted to spellingcity.com. Don’t forget to play the games and take practice tests!
Math finds us starting Unit 6: Developing Fact Power. We will discuss turn around facts and related subtraction facts (fact families).
In religion, we will discuss Jesus as our Good Shepherd and how we follow Him.
We will begin a new social studies new unit on “In and Around the Land”.
In science we will continue on the weather with a special focus on weather tools.
Announcements:
- Please remind your child to bring their library book to school on Tuesday so that they may check out another.
- Tuesday is Stations of the Cross at 2pm.
- There is an assembly on Wednesday at 11am and the winners of the Palmisano Writing Contest will be announced.
- Wednesday is $1 Free Dress – All proceeds go to support St. Julie School in Uganda
- Monday is the beginning of the 3rd and final trimester
- Friday is Primary Centers
- This week is All About… Nathan P.! Congratulations!
Have a wonderful week. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
Ms. Manning
